Cuthead - Can’t You See (2018)

Following a fine outing on Local Talk late last year, sample-digging beat-maker turned deep house don Cuthead returns to home city imprint Uncanny Valley. Can’t You See sits somewhere between an expansive EP and a perfectly formed mini-album, offering up an octet of cuts that neatly summarizes his hybrid approach to music-making. That means a solid mixture of dusty, warm and rolling deep house shufflers (see the vibraphone-sporting “Mount Platti”, Andres style jazziness of “Sweet” and rock solid “Can’t You See”) and blazed hip-hop instrumentals (“Kimono”, “Tranquility Base”, “Too Dark To See Tomorrow”), with the odd surprise thrown in (bass music-influenced opener “Lunar Lander” and the punk-funk-influenced 130BPM stomp of “Schlagzeug Fallt Die Treppe Runter”).